A Peace candidate in 2004? But first, mainstream Democrats cave on Iraq (big surprise, huh?) In rapid succession, the leading Democrats considering a race against George W. Bush in 2004 are lining up behind the president’s push for possible military…

Amazing facts about Afghanistan! The build upWe supported Bin Laden and the Taliban for years, and viewed them as freedom fighters against the Russians. As late as 1998, the US was paying the salary of every single Taliban official in…

A fun place to have a war When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains,And the women come up to cut up what remains,Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains,An’ go to your Gawd like a soldier.…

Santa Cruz thumbs nose at DEA Gives away free medicinal marijuana

Is L.A. ready for a gay, Jewish police chief? Steve Lopez runs down the search for a new police chief in L.A.  One other leading candidate is, omigod, an intellectual…

It’s official, Dee Dee Ramone od’ed on heroin The Ramones were a ground-breaking band. I saw them many times.  It was always the exact same show; the fog machine, the pinhead with the Gabba Gabba Hey sigh, no stage patter, 45…

Senator Says 9/11 Intelligence Probe Hindered Congressional investigators are not getting the cooperation they need from the Bush administration on information held by the U.S. intelligence community before the Sept. 11 attacks, a ranking Republican senator said on Wednesday.